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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.

Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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

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