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Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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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Change Direction People
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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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Existence Science Space Time
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy

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