Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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