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.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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