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It is passivity that dulls feeling.
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Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.
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If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.
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[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
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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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Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.
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Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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The really important thing is not to reject anything.
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I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.
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My ignorance is not charming.
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Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.
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Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.
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Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.
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Rules of taste enforce structures of power.
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Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous
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Passion paralyzes good taste.
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The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

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What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.
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Art is seduction, not rape.
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Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.
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I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.
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The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.
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My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.
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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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It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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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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Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art
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I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all
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The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
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