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

Susan Sontag

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life

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