whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAGTo paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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