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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

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