There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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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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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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