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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person 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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

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