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.
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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Most 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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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