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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Susan Sontag

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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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Care Intelligence People
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel

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