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

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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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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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Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…the truth is the light and light is the truth.
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That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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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 do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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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 was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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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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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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