To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
SUSAN SONTAGA 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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How boring just to be a body.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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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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