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Funny Quotes by Susan Sontag
- It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.
- It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
- In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
- But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures
- Photographers are always imposing
- I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.
- A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
- In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
- Literature usually begets literature.
- Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get…
- Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
- Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
- Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
- Desire has no history...
- One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.
- One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Funny Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin