Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGA 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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