The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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