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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

Susan Sontag

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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

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