"Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all."

-- Zana Briski

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“Nikki "Brandon's never hurt anyone. He's competely sweet and adorable." I choked a little on the sip of sparkling water I'k just swallowed. If Brandon was sweet and adorable, I was Satan's bride.”
“You’ve got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.”
“I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.”
“He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?”, p.194, Vintage
“Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.”
“To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.”
“And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.”
“Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.”

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