Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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