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

Susan Sontag

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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
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
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
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science

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