I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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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 haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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How boring just to be a body.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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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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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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