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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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 haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life

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