Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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