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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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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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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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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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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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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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 nobody but myself.
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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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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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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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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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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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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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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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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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