whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG10 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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