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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Susan Sontag

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography

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