The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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