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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

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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
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
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
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
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

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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