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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Susan Sontag

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
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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Book End 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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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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