Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGSocieties need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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