All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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