It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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