Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGWhat is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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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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