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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

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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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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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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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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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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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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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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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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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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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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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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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