Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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