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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Susan Sontag

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking 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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing

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