Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGKindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. 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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How boring just to be a body.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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