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Artists are here to disturb the peace.

James A. Baldwin

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.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Anger Argument Rage
The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
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Determination Lessons Mean
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.
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Case Death Institution
Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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Hate Hatred Person
If 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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Brother Mean Reality
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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Attention Eye Men
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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Mirror Order People
And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.
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Sky Trouble World
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Artist Disturb Peace
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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Country Discovery People Travel
A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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Balance Men Weight
There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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Baby Funny Uplifting
If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you’ll never make it.
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Life Thinking Trying
You write in order to change the world.
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Order World Writing
The writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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Art Order Real
One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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One Thing Writing

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