Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGA writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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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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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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