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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Susan Sontag

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

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