The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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