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

Susan Sontag

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself

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