Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGwhatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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