Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAGI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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