"I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous."

-- Joel Meyerowitz

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“I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.”
“The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified.”

Source : Bomb Magazine, Summer 1998.
“Maybe itâ€™s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in their sorrow and gluttony and foolishness. You need the virtues, tooâ€”some sort of virtuesâ€”but we donâ€™t care about Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina or Raskolnikov because theyâ€™re good. We care about them because theyâ€™re not admirable, because theyâ€™re us, and because great writers have forgiven them for it.”
“The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought.”
“People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.”

Source : Nikki Gemmell (2011). “Cleave”, p.132, Pan Macmillan
“Sometimes the king is a woman.”
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”
“Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.”

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