In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
RALPH ELLISONThere are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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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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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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My hole is warm and full of light.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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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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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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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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