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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Susan Sontag

Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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 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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories

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