Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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