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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 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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Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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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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I blundered into writing.
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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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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That 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 thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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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 as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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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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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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