Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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