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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

Susan Sontag

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

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