Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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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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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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