I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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