Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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