There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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