In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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