Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAGTo paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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 envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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