"However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced."

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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

Aaron Siskind

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“Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more.”

Source : Alex Comfort (1987). “The joy of sex: a Cordon Bleu guide to lovemaking”, Pocket
“By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or that simultaneous position and momentum have no meaning, but in the insight that we had not been using our minds properly and that it is important to find out how to do so.”
“Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.”
“I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I had wanted to do a comedy.”
“Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.”
“The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.”
“If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live outâ€”since our self-image is untenableâ€”their false notions of usâ€¦ We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.”

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