It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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