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It is not the position, but the disposition.

Susan Sontag

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
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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

It is not the position, but the disposition.

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