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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Susan Sontag

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAG

Frame Photography
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Funny Science
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Thinking World
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kindness Prayer
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG

Destroy History
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ability Exercise Literature
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Need Oneself
How boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAG

Body Boring One Liner
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG

Audience Literature Writing
My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAG

Cameras Photography

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