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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait

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