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It is not the position, but the disposition.

Susan Sontag

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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking 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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait

It is not the position, but the disposition.

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