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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.

Susan Sontag

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself

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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