whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAGTo paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. 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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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