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 SONTAGAttention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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How boring just to be a body.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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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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