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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Susan Sontag

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAG

Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
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
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
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

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

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