Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGSelf-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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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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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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