It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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