No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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How boring just to be a body.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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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 possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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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 only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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