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Susan Sontag

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet 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
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
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential

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