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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing

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