To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAGMy idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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