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.
JAMES BALDWINHatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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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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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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