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 SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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