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

Susan Sontag

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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk

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

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