Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGNo ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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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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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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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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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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