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" After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life. "
Left
Life
Stay
" Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends. "
Friend
City
Life
" Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself. "
Nobody
Train
Life
" Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really. "
Against
Perfect
Risk
" I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down. "
Top
Order
You
" I have taken some hits here and there, but I've been most damaged carrying my little terrier to bed, and I broke my hip turning off the lamp. I've been nicked a few times, but he put me out of business. So life is a very strange adventure. "
Life Is A
Me
Life
" I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.' "
Correspondent
War
Korea
" My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families. "
Dead
Only
Never
" So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it. "
Doing
Way
People
" Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in. "
Some
Take
Fast
" The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American. "
Major
South
Asian
" The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted. "
Like
Fighting
Fire
" Today, Japan is one of the few countries in the world where one hears laughter everywhere. "
Where
World
Today
" War is in the eyes. "
War
Eyes
" War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it. "
Photography
War
Business
" With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known. "
Nothing
Looking
Fear
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