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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Susan Sontag

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself

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