A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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