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Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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