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The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

by Norman Mailer

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The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny

by Laura Bates (Goodreads Author)

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Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist

by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

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“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

tags: comapssion, compassion, compassion-quotes, inner-child, inner-dialogue, inner-guidance, inner-light, inner-peace, inner-self, inner-strength, inner-voice, inner-world, kindness, meditation, spirituality

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“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

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“To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

tags: compassion, conscience, humanity, images, photography, suffering

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“Each person you meet
is an aspect of yourself,
clamoring for love.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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