Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGwhatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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