Order Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Order Talking Thinking Writing
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about them, I'd… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at. What I see and what I fear. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. — George Washington Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
