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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
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
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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Change Ideas Photography Reality
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
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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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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

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