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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

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
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing

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