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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Susan Sontag

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ability Exercise Literature
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAG

Myself Solitude Wait
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Care Intelligence People
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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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAG

Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Ideas Photography Reality
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG

Mad People Potential
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kindness Prayer

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