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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

Susan Sontag

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature

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