Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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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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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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