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How boring just to be a body.

Susan Sontag

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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition

How boring just to be a body.

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