I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAGThe only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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