How boring just to be a body.
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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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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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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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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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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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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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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