Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAGA good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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