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Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Susan Sontag

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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

Shouting has never made me understand anything.

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