I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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 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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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