Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG
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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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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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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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