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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Susan Sontag

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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

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