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 BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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