Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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