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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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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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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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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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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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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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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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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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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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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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