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Susan Sontag

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 SONTAG

Change Direction People
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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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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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Beautiful Deep Women
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait

How boring just to be a body.

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