Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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