Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGwhatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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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.
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