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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Susan Sontag

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 problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
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
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

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