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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Susan Sontag

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Design Real
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG

Death Life Photograph

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

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