The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGWherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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How boring just to be a body.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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