A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGI urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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A 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.
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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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