I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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