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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Susan Sontag

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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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 want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
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

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