10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
SUSAN SONTAGLove dies because its birth was an error.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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How boring just to be a body.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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