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

Susan Sontag

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
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
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

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

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