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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

Susan Sontag

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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

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