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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

Susan Sontag

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
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
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading

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