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

Susan Sontag

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People

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

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