Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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