A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
JAMES A. BALDWINYou want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.
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You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one–you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.
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At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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The writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you’ll never make it.
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You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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