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 SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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