Quote by Susan Sontag
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention t

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. – Susan Sontag

Other quotes by Susan Sontag

Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag

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Minorities
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag

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Beauty
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. – Susan Sontag

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Hurt, Injury
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Other Quotes from
Mental Illness
category

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler

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Mental Illness

Much of what is labeled mental illness simply reflects our – George Vaillant

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Mental Illness

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. – R. D. Laing

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Mental Illness

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. – Sigmund Freud

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Mental Illness

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Every woman Ive had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when Im at home, I clam up and wont discuss anything intimate or personal. – Jarvis Cocker

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath

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