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Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Susan Sontag

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World

Shouting has never made me understand anything.

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