If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGNo ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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 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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