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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
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

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

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