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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.

Susan Sontag

Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAG

Anger Myself Understand
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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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Direction People
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition
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.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAG

Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAG

Existence Science Space Time
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAG

Pain People
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

Courage Inspirational Yourself

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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