Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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How boring just to be a body.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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10 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.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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