To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAGOne doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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