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"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."
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"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
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"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."
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"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."
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"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
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"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
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"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."
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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
Events
"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."
God
"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."
Home
"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."
Life
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
Time
"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."
Life
"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
"Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion."
Being
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
Photography
"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."
Death
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