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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

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
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
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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 urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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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