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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

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
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
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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

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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