A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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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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