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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.

Susan Sontag

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Care Intelligence People
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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 doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing

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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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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