Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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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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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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