If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGI urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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