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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Susan Sontag

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
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

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