Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAGLiterature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAGDo 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 SONTAGTo photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAGThe fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAGOne doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAGI want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGReal art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAGThe only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAGTime exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAGI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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