I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
-
-
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG -
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAG -
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAG -
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAG -
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAG -
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAG -
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
SUSAN SONTAG -
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.
SUSAN SONTAG -
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.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG -
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG