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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

Susan Sontag

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

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