A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGA writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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 fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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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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