The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAGA writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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