If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'…

Susan Sontag
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If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.
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To photograph is to confer importance. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.27, Macmillan
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness. ✨ Susan Sontag (2012). As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: … ▶
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. ✨ Susan Sontag (2013). Regarding the Pain of Others, p.118, Macmillan
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