My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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