In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAGWherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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