The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINThere are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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