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

Susan Sontag

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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place

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

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