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Susan Sontag

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAG

Myself Solitude Wait
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lying Philosophy Truth
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG

Audience Literature Writing
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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Art Photography Touch
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Direction People
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Hands Writing
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAG

Pain People
Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG

Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG

Mad People Potential
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAG

Disease Fear Sexuality
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Thinking World

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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