Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGAttention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
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.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAGWhat is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAGTime exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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.
SUSAN SONTAGThe camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAGI urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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