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Susan Sontag

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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Change Direction People
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality

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