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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

Susan Sontag
Waiting, Solitude, Want
Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.305, Macmillan

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

Susan Sontag
Inspiration, Kissing, Waiting

Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.

Susan Sontag
Reading, Book, Waiting

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

Susan Sontag
Silence, Waiting, Sound
Susan Sontag (2001). “In America: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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