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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
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
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
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
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
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
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
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

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