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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

Susan Sontag

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality

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