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

Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place

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