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

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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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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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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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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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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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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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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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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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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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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 am nobody but myself.
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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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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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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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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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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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