"Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency."

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Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Alison Jackson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

Alison Jackson

#Photography Quotes #Believe Quotes #Complacency Quotes

“I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.”
“You can't break my heart. It's made of water.”

Source : Naomi Wallace (2010). “In the Heart of America and Other Plays”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com
“It's not about who is real to your face. It's about who stays real behind your back.”
“In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.”
“My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.”
“Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?”
“The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.105, A&C Black

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