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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Susan Sontag

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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

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