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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

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
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
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
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
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 place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World

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