Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES A. BALDWINI met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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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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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 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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Life is more important than art; that’s what makes art important.
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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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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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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
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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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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself.
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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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The writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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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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