Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGSelf-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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