I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAGwhatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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