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Photographers are always imposing.

Susan Sontag

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
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
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself

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