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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Susan Sontag

Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

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