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Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
– Susan Sontag

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  3. Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. – Robert Penn Warren
  4. Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event? – Haruki Murakami
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  6. Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. – Susan Sontag
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  8. What determines each person’s state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person. – Chris Prentiss
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  10. When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle. – Flannery OConnor
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