Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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 don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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