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Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
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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Live Old Oneself Recognition
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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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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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Artist Hands Writing
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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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Beautiful Deep Women
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
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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Art Photography Touch
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality

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