I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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