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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag

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 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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
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.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

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