No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGDo 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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