Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAGLove dies because its birth was an error.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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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 haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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