Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGMost people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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