I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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