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

Susan Sontag

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
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
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring 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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk

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