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

Susan Sontag

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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography

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