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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Susan Sontag

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAG

Myself Solitude Wait
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Thinking World
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAG

Love Person Ruin Willing
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG

Audience Literature Writing
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG

Existence Inspirational Photography
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book End Photography
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Design Real
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAG

Frame Photography
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAG

Disease Fear Sexuality

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