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Susan Sontag

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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Care Intelligence People
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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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Artist Hands Writing
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
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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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay

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