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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag 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.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Shouting has never made me understand anything.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag 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.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag 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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