Punching Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Punching Talking Touching Writing
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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success. — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
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The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
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