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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.

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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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