Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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