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

Susan Sontag

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
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
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand 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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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

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