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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

Susan Sontag

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste

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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