Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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