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 SONTAGPhotography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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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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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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