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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

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe

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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