Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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