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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Susan Sontag

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAG

Myself Solitude Wait
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAG

Anger Myself Understand
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kindness Prayer
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAG

Frame Photography
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Thinking World
Art is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Consciousness One Liner
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ability Exercise Literature
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Hands Writing
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG

Pain Photography
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAG

Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG

Death Life Photograph
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Photograph Time
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ideas Poet Writing
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Design Real

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