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

Susan Sontag

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG

Destroy History
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential

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