"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-- Susan Sontag

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“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
“Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles Himself for the sake of the soul that is bent down to the ground, that He may even exalt within Himself that which is bent double under a weight of sin?... If so, you must blame the physician for stooping over suffering and putting up with evil smells in order to give health to the sick?”
“If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And youâ€™d be straining to hear the rest.”
“Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “City”, p.207, Open Road Media
“When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still.”
“Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.”

Source : "My Visit to South Africa Part 2" by Queen Rania al Abdullah, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 28, 2009.
“But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?”
“If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?â€'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”

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