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.
SUSAN SONTAGThe only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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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.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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