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

Susan Sontag

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner

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

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