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.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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