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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Susan Sontag

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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
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
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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

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