I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGThe only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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