Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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