It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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