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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.

Susan Sontag

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place

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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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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