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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Susan Sontag

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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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 hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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

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