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Sanity is a cozy lie.

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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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