Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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