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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Ralph Ellison

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Choice Day Desperate Live Music
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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Affection Afraid Family Grandmother Grandparent Love Slave
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
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
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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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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Activity Attention God Hollywood Hunt Invisible Men Risk Spook
The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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Belief Light Loyal One Liner Passion Revel Truth
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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Butterfly Friend Happy Journey Long Love Order Plan Travel
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Difficult Fiction Good Made Real Reality
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Hobby Myself Past Require Shadow Skill Value Writing
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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Ancestor Emotion Family People Relationship
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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Good Time Identity Memories Memory Odds Punctual Remember
Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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Action Definition Hibernation Implement Preparation
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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Experience Grandfather Mind Side Start Trying Young
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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Act Circle Commitment Involvement Study Work

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