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

Susan Sontag

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
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
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People

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

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