To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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