Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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A 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.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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