I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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