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

Susan Sontag

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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 don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

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