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Precisely Quotes by Susan Sontag
- What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person…
- To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices…
- It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just…
- 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…
- Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
More Precisely Quotes
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. — Konrad Adenauer
- It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate… — Walter Benjamin
- Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. — Warren G. Bennis
- Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
- Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. — Theodor Adorno
- I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. — Tony Abbott
- I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every… — Truman Capote
- Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. — Thomas Carlyle
- I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever
- In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. — Eldridge Cleaver