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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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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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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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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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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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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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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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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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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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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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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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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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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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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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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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