If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAGHow boring just to be a body.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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 problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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