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“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images ...”
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“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points ... ”
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“I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.”
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“... the sum total of women's athletic scholarships for the entire nation in 1972 [the year Title IX was enacted] was $100,000.”
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“I have learned, in the dark hours since, not to grieve because he is gone but to thank god and rejoice because I have had him — and still have him ... My love is dead. Long live my love.”
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“End-of-life decision-making should be a civil right. There is no rational, secular underpinning for laws denying this right. They are based solely on doctrinal beliefs that suffering has spiritual merit and that only some imagined god can determine when one's life is to end. Our bodies belong to us, not to the church and not to the state.”
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“A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes — but a movie actor waits. ”
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“The other man's money is capital; getting it is labor.”