Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGThe painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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