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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

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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 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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
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
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel

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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