I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGTime eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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