My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAGMy library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAGTo paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAGIn ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGNo ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGI urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAGWherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAGSelf-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAGwhatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAGHow boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGReal art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGMost people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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