In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAGLiterature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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How boring just to be a body.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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