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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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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.” Stephen Covey “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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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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Advantage Motivation Nerve Proud Shine Solitude Unseen Wear
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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Arrows Beautiful Exploit Explore Life Meaning Moving Things To Do
I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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Feeling Bad Loose Low Needs Sad Territory Unhappy Worst
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Change Commitment Committed Deep Grow Grows
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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Aim Concentrate Focus Ornery Plan Task Wonderful World
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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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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Asking Being Yourself Individuality Myself Query Question
Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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Action Brain Forget Knowledge Possibility Power
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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Confirm Death Giving Life Light Reality Truth
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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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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Being Yourself Ego Expectation Life Love Respect Self Self Esteem
Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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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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Emotion Fairy Stories Faith Fiction Heart Leaving Love Loyal Reality Science
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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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
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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Believe Confidence Inspirational Power Trust
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Detached Explore Journey Memories Order Travel
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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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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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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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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I am nobody but myself.
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