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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

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