A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGMy idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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 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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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