A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGTime exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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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.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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