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

Susan Sontag

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring 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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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

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