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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
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
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
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy

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