Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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How boring just to be a body.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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