No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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