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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain 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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation

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