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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.

Susan Sontag

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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

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