Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGThe truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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