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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

Ralph Ellison

In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Detached Explore Journey Memories Order Travel
Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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Believe Confidence Inspirational Power Trust
In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Choice Day Desperate Live Music
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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Action Definition Hibernation Implement Preparation
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Control Enjoy Failure Happy Humanity Inspiring Life
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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Conflict Crafts Discuss Immediate Novel Occupation Serious
The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Discover Found Miracle Moral Possibility Shine World
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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Aim Concentrate Focus Ornery Plan Task Wonderful World
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Caring Cop Gun Poet Thought Trigger Word
I am nobody but myself.
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Motivation Myself Nobody One Liner Sefl Love Task
Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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Butterfly Friend Happy Journey Long Love Order Plan Travel
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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Art Depend Humanity Understanding Will
It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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Advantage Motivation Nerve Proud Shine Solitude Unseen Wear
God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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Art Bless God Identity Moksha Pray Shadow Truth
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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Emotion Fairy Stories Faith Fiction Heart Leaving Love Loyal Reality Science

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