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Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Susan Sontag

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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

Shouting has never made me understand anything.

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