How boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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