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

Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World

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