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Want Quotes by Susan Sontag
- One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic…
- I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.
- Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.
- In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
- Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.
- I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in…
- His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body -…
- The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the…
- I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious,…
- It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it.…
- I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.
- Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling,…
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