Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGKindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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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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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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