Saul Leiter Quotes
If I’d only known which photographs would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.
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What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
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You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That’s what I equate it to. Here is the thing: you have to understand, with psychiatry, there is no science behind it. And to pretend that there is a science behind it is criminal.
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I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don't want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I'm not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don't want it to effect what I'm doing.
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It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.
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I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare.
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There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.
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Last year we could handle bigger teams. This year that's definitely a concern of mine. We had a team that could match up with anyone last year. We don't have a team like that this year.
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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.
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Women didn't 'learn' how to cook - you were born knowing how.
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The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.
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Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.
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You're not going to bring back all the jobs from China.
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Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe .
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I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits).
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I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.
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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
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The man don't make the vision; the vision makes the man.
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If I’d only known which photographs would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.
