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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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 want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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