Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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