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

Susan Sontag

One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Need Oneself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature 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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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 want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational 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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph

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

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