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— Marie Dressler"I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world."
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Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.
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