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

Susan Sontag

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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

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