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“To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more — and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.”
Susan Sontag - On Pho
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In one of her notebooks [Arendt] asks: "Is there a way of thinking that is not tyrannical?"
From What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, xxi
On the one hand: “Illness makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose exacts
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Susan Sontag • The Imagination of Disaster
On how to be a writer:
It’s lunacy. . . You have to be obsessed. People write me all the time, or get in touch with me about “what should I do if I want to be a writer?” I say well, do you really want to be a writer? It’s not like something you’d want to be—it’s rather something you couldn’t help but be. But you have to be obsessed.
Otherwise, of c
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I believe that one of the ways in which cancer cells insure their own life and depress the immune system is by creating a physiologically engendered despair. Learning to fight that despair in all its manifestations is not only therapeutic. It is vital. Underlining what is joyful and life-affirming in my living becomes crucial.