All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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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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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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