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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

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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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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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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 feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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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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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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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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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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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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