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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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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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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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I blundered into writing.
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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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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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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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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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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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