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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.

Susan Sontag

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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People

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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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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