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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

Susan Sontag

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAG

Pain People

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