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

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
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself

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