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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

Susan Sontag

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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

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