Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases...

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases...

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

To photograph is to confer importance.

To photograph is to confer importance.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...