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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

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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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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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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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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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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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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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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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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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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 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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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 am nobody but myself.
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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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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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