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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

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
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
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Connection Inspirational Pay

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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