No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My library is an archive of longings.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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