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It is not the position, but the disposition.

Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
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

It is not the position, but the disposition.

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