Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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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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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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