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Susan Sontag

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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Care Intelligence People
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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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Book Education Goodness Heart World
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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Existence Science Space Time
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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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Lust Photography Satisfaction
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography

It is not the position, but the disposition.

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