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Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
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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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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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Death Painting Photography Reality
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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