"I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history."

-- Eleanor Antin

#Photography Quotes #Dubious Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death." The League of Frightened Men”
“Honestly, it was pretty challenging working with a talking raccoon.”
“When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon â€“ when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be solved, and solved quickly, by his presidency â€“ the outcome is both predictable and tragic. That is not the way to engage social change in a democracy. And it is not the way to help democracy itself survive and thrive. Democracy is a non-stop experiment. Each generation must help sustain it, which means being in it day-by-day for the long haul.”
“There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man.”
“Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.”
“Look, I'm not ready for you," Min said. "I'm not prepared. I don't have any defenses when you're around. I make these plans and I mean it, I really do, and then I kiss you because I'm crazy about you which would be fine if I didn't fall in love with you but there that is, just standing there, and you know it, you know you've got me.”
“The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.”
“Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.”

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