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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Susan Sontag

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
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing

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