There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Photographers are always imposing.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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