The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWINMost of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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