Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAGTime exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAGIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAGI want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGOne doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAGI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAGOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGThe only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAGReal art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAGA good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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