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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.

Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
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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Artist Hands Writing
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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Death Painting Photography Reality
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAG

Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Direction People
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Eagerness Vitality
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAG

Disease Fear Sexuality
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Thinking World

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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