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Photographers are always imposing.

Susan Sontag

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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life

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