Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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