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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

Susan Sontag

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kindness Prayer
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
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

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