The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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 understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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