Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
SUSAN SONTAGI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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