Love dies because its birth was an error.
SUSAN SONTAGThe camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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