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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Basic Best Compassion Necessity Oppose Order Therefore World
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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