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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Susan Sontag

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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

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