The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWINIt was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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