Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGSocieties need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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