Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGThe only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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