Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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