whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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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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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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