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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Susan Sontag

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness 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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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