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

Susan Sontag

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
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

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

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