In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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