Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWINYou write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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