Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGTime exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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