Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINThose kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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