Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGNo ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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 possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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