I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAGMy idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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 library is an archive of longings.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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