My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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