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

Susan Sontag

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
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem 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
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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 envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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

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