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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
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
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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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