The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

Susan Sontag

Tags: photography humour pornography



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One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

Susan Sontag


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I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Susan Sontag

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All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

Susan Sontag

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The only interesting ideas are heresies.

Susan Sontag

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All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

Susan Sontag

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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

Susan Sontag

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Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

Susan Sontag

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Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

Susan Sontag

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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

Susan Sontag

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