Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGKindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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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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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’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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