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

Susan Sontag

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
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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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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

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