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

Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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 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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real

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