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

Susan Sontag

One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science

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