Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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