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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.

Susan Sontag

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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

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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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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