Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGI want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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