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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
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
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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

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