I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAGThe only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Do 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.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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