There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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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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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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