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

Susan Sontag

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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing

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