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Susan Sontag

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
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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Live Old Oneself Recognition
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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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Death Painting Photography Reality
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science

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