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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.

Susan Sontag

Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance

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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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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