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

Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph

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