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Susan Sontag

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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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Artist Hands Writing
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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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Change Direction People
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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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Death Painting Photography Reality
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography

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