Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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