Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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How boring just to be a body.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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