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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

Susan Sontag

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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 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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
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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