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

Susan Sontag

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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk

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