“I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.”

— Lorrie Moore

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American writer 1957

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"It Has to Walk Alone," Infinity magazine, 1951.

“I never thought I'd see the day
when murder would become so commonplace.
Hardly a minute ever goes by
without a murder taking place. And why?
Well, for a start, the punishment's not hard:
they sentence you to life but you're out in no time.”

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“I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.”

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“Photography has never been a problem for me, [what is important] is looking, the way of looking, of questioning with your eyes: I don’t think; I am impulsive, it is /looking/ that’s important, not photography. Now, since I have started drawing, I’ve merely switched tools, but it is still looking that’s important. To look the right way, one should learn to become a deaf-mute.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) French photographer

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“I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.”

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“I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.”

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