A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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