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Susan Sontag

It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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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Artist Hands Writing
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself

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