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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Susan Sontag

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lust Photography Satisfaction
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Direction People
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Eagerness Vitality
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kindness Prayer
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Photograph Time
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Care Intelligence People
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG

Pain Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAG

Comedy Feeling Tragedy
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG

Audience Literature Writing
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAG

Intelligent Life Talk
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAG

Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAG

Different People Safe
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAG

People Reality Women

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