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Susan Sontag

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
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
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
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality

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