There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
JAMES A. BALDWINRemember, 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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One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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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 world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you’ll never make it.
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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life — without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.
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The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.
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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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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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