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

Susan Sontag

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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing

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