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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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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Book End Photography
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time

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