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It is not the position, but the disposition.

Susan Sontag

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
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity

It is not the position, but the disposition.

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