"I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil."

-- W. Eugene Smith

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“Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.”
“Those faithful Mormon pioneers ... were willing to put everything on the altar to sacrifice for and defend their God and their faith.”
“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”

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“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”
“Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.”
“Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.”
“It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!”
“I always bow to my enemies before I destroy them!”

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