I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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