All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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