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

Susan Sontag

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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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