Susan Sontag quotes - page 5

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. (Susan Sontag)

I don't care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

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Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.

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Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

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I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

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Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

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Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

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Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.

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Art is seduction, not rape.

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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

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[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. (Susan Sontag)

Passion paralyzes good taste.

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Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous.

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Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

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Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

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My ignorance is not charming.

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Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

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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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One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.

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All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

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Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head. (Susan Sontag)

Can I love someone... and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

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Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

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Most of my reading is rereading.

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The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

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Susan Sontag

Occupation: American Writer
Born: January 16, 1933
Died: December 28, 2004
Quotes count: 258
Wikipedia: Susan Sontag

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