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…and yet I am what they think I am.

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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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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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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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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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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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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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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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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 act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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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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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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