How boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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