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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy

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