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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
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

It is not the position, but the disposition.

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