I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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