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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Susan Sontag

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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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Death Painting Photography Reality
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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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