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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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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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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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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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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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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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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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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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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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I am nobody but myself.
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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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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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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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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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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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