My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAGLiterature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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