When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINWhen you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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I 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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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 few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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