One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
SUSAN SONTAGI want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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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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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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A 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.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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