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Photographers are always imposing.

Susan Sontag

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings

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