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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

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