In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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