Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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How boring just to be a body.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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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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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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