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It is not the position, but the disposition.

Susan Sontag

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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography

It is not the position, but the disposition.

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