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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.

Susan Sontag

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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Existence Science Space Time
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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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Book End Photography
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

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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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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