How boring just to be a body.
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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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