… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
JAMES A. BALDWINThere 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.
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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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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.
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At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
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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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I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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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]
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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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One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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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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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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You write in order to change the world.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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