Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is not the position, but the disposition.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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