Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAGCompassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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 write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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