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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

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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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

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