All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAGCompassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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How boring just to be a body.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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