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.
SUSAN SONTAGCompassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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