Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAGMost people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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 problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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