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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Susan Sontag

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography

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