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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Susan Sontag

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
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
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real

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