I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAGThe painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My library is an archive of longings.
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How boring just to be a body.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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