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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World

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