All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAGDo stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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How boring just to be a body.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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