The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAGThe truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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