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"Genuinely captivated learning about invasive fish species and the reversal of the Chicago River and its far-reaching impacts.
“It was a lot easier to imagine changing the river once again — with electricity and bubbles and noise and anything else anyone could dream up — than changing the lives of the people around it.”" — Jun 27, 2025 01:09PM
"Genuinely captivated learning about invasive fish species and the reversal of the Chicago River and its far-reaching impacts.
“It was a lot easier to imagine changing the river once again — with electricity and bubbles and noise and anything else anyone could dream up — than changing the lives of the people around it.”" — Jun 27, 2025 01:09PM
“One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.”
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“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept”
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“To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.”
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.”
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
“I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am. I feel like a warm gust of wind could exhale my way and I'd be disappeared forever, not even a sliver of fingernail left behind. On some days, I find this thought calming; on others it chills me.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
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