Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGTo paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAGTo be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAGWhat is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAGHow boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGA writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGMost people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAGKindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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 SONTAGwhatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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