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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
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

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