You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWINThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Those 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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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