Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are funny little portable pieces of thought.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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