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“I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.”

— Robert Capa

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If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

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It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

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It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

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The pictures are there, and you just take them.

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This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

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I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

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