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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
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
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

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