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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.

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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAG

Appreciation Beautiful Feeling

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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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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