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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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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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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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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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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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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 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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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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I blundered into writing.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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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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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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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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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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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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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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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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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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