I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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