Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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