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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.

Susan Sontag

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
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

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