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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

Susan Sontag

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAG

Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

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