I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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How boring just to be a body.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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