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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.

Susan Sontag

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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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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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Care Intelligence People
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
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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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Dream Memories

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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