To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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