“With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind – like most historical evidence.”— Susan Sontag Related Quotes “It’s so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible – I needed a religion. I was lost.”— Sloane Crosley “We” – this “we” is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through – don’t understand. We don’t get it. We truly can’t imagine what it was like. We can’t imagine how dreadful, how terrifying war is; and how normal it becomes. Can’t understand, can’t imagine. That’s what every soldier, and every journalist and aid worker and independent observer who has put in time under fire, and had the luck to elude the death that struck down others nearby, stubbornly feels. And they are right.”— Susan Sontag “Reading doesn’t put you to sleep… it makes you dream…”— Nanette L. Avery