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

Susan Sontag

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep 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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People

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