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Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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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Book Dream Memories
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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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Live Old Oneself Recognition
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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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Artist Hands Writing
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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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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