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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.

Ralph Ellison

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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Hate Honest Life Satisfied Success Try Work
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 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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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.
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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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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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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 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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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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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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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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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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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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