To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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