Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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