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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Susan Sontag

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem 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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait

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