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Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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I blundered into writing.
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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…the truth is the light and light is the truth.
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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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