You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES A. BALDWINRage 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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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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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Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you’re afraid of the other side of the coin — to love and be loved.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
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The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
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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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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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The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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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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A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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You write in order to change the world.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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