To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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 camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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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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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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