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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.

Susan Sontag

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
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

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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