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The hard truth is that what m...

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Although there is a sense in ...

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

We live under continual threa...

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

All photographs aspire to the...

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

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To make your life being a wri...

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

To photograph people is to vi...

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

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The highest vocation of photo...

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

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Illness is the night-side of ...

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

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I don't write easily or rapid...

I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.

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writers are makers, not just ...

writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.

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War tears, rends. War rips op...

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

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As objects of contemplation, ...

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

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It's hard not to be afraid. B...

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

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The likelihood that your acts...

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

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I discovered that I am tired ...

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

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Fewer and fewer Americans pos...

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

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When we're afraid we shoot. B...

When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.

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Thinking, writing are ultimat...

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

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That even an apocalypse can b...

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

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The writer is either a practi...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

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