To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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