A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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