My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAGLiterature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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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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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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