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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.

Susan Sontag

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
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
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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

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