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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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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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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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You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
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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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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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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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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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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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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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I blundered into writing.
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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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