"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."

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"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."

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"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."

Voice

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."

Thought

"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."

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"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."

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"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."

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"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress."

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"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."

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"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."

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"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."

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"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

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