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

Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography

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