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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk

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