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Susan Sontag

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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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