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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 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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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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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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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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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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I am nobody but myself.
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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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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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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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I blundered into writing.
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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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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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