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Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

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Eric Hoffer

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

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Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the straight photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansel Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

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I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.

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Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

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