Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.
Susan SontagMots clés curiosity action boldness
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
Susan SontagRead a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.
Susan SontagMots clés reading re-reading
Try not to live in a linguistic slum.
Susan SontagI perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names.
Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.
Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.
Susan SontagMots clés eternity infinity desire longing insatiability perpetuation
How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!
Susan SontagMots clés selflessness devotion pretense self-love
To travel is to shop.
Susan SontagWhy not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all the time. During these years, kids would live communally – doing some work, anyway being physically active, in the countryside(...)
This simple change in the age specificity of schooling would a) reduce adolescent discontent, anomie, boredom, neurosis; b) radically modify the almost inevitable process by which people at 50 are psychologically and intellectually ossified (...)
After all, since most people from now on are going to live to be 70, 75, 80, why should all their schooling be bunched together in the first 1/3 or 1/4 of their lives – so that it’s downhill all the way
The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one of the principal uses of a book.
Susan SontagMots clés reading books diversion
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