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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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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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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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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 end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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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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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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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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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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