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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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Being Yourself Ego Expectation Life Love Respect Self Self Esteem
God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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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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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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Ability Humanity Little Lying Power Reveal Writer
America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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Copy Exact Recognize Same Strand Unchanged Woven
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Discover Found Miracle Moral Possibility Shine World
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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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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Fail Fear Issue Loose My Own Problem Try Way
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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Antidote Discover Fact Hubris Ideas Irony Pride System
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Black History People Refuse Understand Visible
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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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 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
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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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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