People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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 trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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