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

Susan Sontag

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAG

Myself Solitude Wait
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Love dies because its birth was an error.
SUSAN SONTAG

Born Death Love One Liner
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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

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

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