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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Susan Sontag

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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time

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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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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