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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

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I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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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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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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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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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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