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

Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain 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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself

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

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