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

Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity

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