Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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