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My library is an archive of longings.

Susan Sontag

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste

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