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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Susan Sontag

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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People

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