Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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 world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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