If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINGenerations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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