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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Susan Sontag

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life

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