"The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded."

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Erica Jong

#Photography Quotes #Cameras Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.”
“Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.”
“These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.”
“Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.”
“Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.”
“I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.”
“Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.”
“Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.”

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