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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Susan Sontag

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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain 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
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
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself

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