Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAGSelf-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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