Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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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How boring just to be a body.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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