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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Susan Sontag

Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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

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