I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGA writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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