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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch

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