“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”

— Susan Sontag

Source: "Susan Sontag Finds Romance," interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)

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American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933–2004

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