Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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