A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGCompassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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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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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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