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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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing

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