Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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