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"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."
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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
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"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
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"Having a job does not mean living."
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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
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"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."
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"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."
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"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."
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"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
Photography

"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
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"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
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"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."
Life

"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
Memory

"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."
Talent

"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease."
People

"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
Public

"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
People

"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer."
Art
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