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Posted on May 4, 2020May 7, 2020

Susan Sontag — The Vale of Soul-Making

I don’t feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall–like seeking love in a whorehouse.

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 – 1980 (FSG, 2012)

via Susan Sontag — The Vale of Soul-Making

Posted on September 15, 2018

Susan Sontag – On Writing

I will write in the notebook every day. [Model: Lichtenberg’s Waste Books]

– Susan Sontag in, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

[Quotation taken from my Writer’s Notebooks from 2015]

 

Posted on August 29, 2018

How Famous Writers Organize Their Books — RhysTranter.com

Includes Susan Sontag, Hanya Yanagihara, Georges Perec, Samuel Pepys, Brian Evenson, Erica Jong, and more

via How Famous Writers Organize Their Books — RhysTranter.com

Posted on May 27, 2018

“to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude” — Art of Quotation

“to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude” Susan Sontag, writer

via “to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude” — Art of Quotation

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