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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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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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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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I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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I am nobody but myself.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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I blundered into writing.
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Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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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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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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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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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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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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