How boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGWherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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