"No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph."

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Source : Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

Bill Brandt

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“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
“Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!”

Source : Robert Blair (1851). “The Grave: A Poem”, p.37
“I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.”
“The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.167, Granta Books
“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.”
“Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but itâ€™s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.”
“I got beef with commercial-ass ***** with gold teeth Lampin' in a Lexus eatin' beef.”
“The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love....”

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