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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

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
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
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner

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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