You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]
JAMES A. BALDWINIf the word ‘integration’ means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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Life is more important than art; that’s what makes art important.
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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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The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.
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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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The purpose of education…is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
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You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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 can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
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