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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Susan Sontag

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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 writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
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
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People

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