The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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