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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.

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My hole is warm and full of light.
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Holes Life Light One Liner Positive Warm Women
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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Hate Honest Life Satisfied Success Try Work
Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
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Contradictory Freedom Long Shout Sing Song Unison Voice
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Control Enjoy Failure Happy Humanity Inspiring Life
I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Awake Dream Invisible Remember Sleep Walk World
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Ahead Beginning End Love Lying Motivation Support
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Enough Morning Museum Sun
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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