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

Susan Sontag

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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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 want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Education Goodness Heart World
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Care Intelligence People

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