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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Susan Sontag

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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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 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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy

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