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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag

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
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational 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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
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

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