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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Susan Sontag

One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life

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