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

Susan Sontag

Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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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