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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

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Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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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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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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the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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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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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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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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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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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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