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There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus
Age: 48 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 14
Died: 1971
Died: July 26
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Diane Nemerov
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The camera is a kind of license.
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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.
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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
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