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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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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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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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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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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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