Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are funny little portable pieces of thought.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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