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

Susan Sontag

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction

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