whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAGMost people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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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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