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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Community Everything Exist Meaningless Photograph
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Again never One Shall Single Stories Story Told

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