I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGThe truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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