Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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How boring just to be a body.
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