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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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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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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