The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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