You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWINTrue 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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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