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It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair…

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By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of…

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

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“Yes, for every child, rich or poor, there's a time of running through a dark place; and there's no word for a child's fear,…

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“Kate, the mother of thirteen, is forty-nine; delicately made; her skin creamlike where the weather has not got at it. She is smaller than…

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“The passion for vengeance is a terrifyingly strong one, very easily and probably inevitably wrought up by such evidence [of atrocities], even at our…

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It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have…

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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook…

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“God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.”

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Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.

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The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the…

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Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by…

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