No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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