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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 end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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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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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?
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Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…the truth is the light and light is the truth.
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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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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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I blundered into writing.
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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 denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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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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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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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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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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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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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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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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