Susan Sontag Quotes
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Shouting has never made me understand anything.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag 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.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Art is a form of consciousness.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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