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Susan Sontag

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time

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