If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGwhatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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