Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
From Susan Sontag
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
To photograph is to confer importance.
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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