Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGAttention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAG10 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.
SUSAN SONTAGSocieties need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGOne doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGSelf-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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