I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
JAMES A. BALDWINThere 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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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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The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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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 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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At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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