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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Susan Sontag

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
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
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
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
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings

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