In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAGI urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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