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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.

Susan Sontag

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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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Care Intelligence People
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

Courage Inspirational Yourself
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAG

Beautiful Deep Women
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAG

People Transformation
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ability Exercise Literature
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Need Place
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lust Photography Satisfaction
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG

Extinction Problem World
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG

Audience Literature Writing

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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