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Susan Sontag

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste

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