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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

Susan Sontag

My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
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
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

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