The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
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It's fantastic knowing you're going to die it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to you.Susan Sontag
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work they can take pictures.
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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past because we have survived.
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent are seen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways.
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