Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWINNobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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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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