Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGMy library is an archive of longings.
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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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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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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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