I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGMost people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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 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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How boring just to be a body.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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