The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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 place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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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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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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