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Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
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

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