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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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 the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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

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