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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Susan Sontag

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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas 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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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

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