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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.

Susan Sontag

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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Live Old Oneself Recognition
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
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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Existence Science Space Time
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAG

Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAG

Encouragement Inspirational Life
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG

Funny Inspirational Travel
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lust Photography Satisfaction
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Hands Writing
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAG

Disease Fear Sexuality
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAG

Frame Photography
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kindness Prayer

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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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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