The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGDo 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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How boring just to be a body.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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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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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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