One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
SUSAN SONTAGSocieties need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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