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" Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. "

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" Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. "

" I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. "

" A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. "

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" Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. "

" For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. "

" Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. "

" A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. "

" The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. "

" Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. "

" The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. "

" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "

" Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. "

" The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. "

" AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. "

" Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. "

" Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. "

" AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. "

" Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. "

" Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. "

" I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. "

" The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. "

" To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. "

" The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. "

" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. "

" The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. "

" Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. "

" Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. "

" What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "

" My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. "