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Susan Sontag

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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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Change Direction People
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography

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