The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by...

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by...

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of...

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of...

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt...

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt...

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe...

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe...

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.