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Diane Arbus Quotes: Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
         

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.


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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.



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The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories



A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.



I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.



Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.



I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.



Take pictures of what you fear.

Take pictures of what you fear.



I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.



I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.



My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.





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A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.



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Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.



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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.



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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.



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Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.



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