It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGTo take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My library is an archive of longings.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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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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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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