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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 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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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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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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Believe Confidence Inspirational Power Trust
Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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Ashamed Fear Guilt Hell Like Scary Showcase
Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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Almighty Good Merry Go Round Sacrifice Wanted
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 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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Aim Concentrate Focus Ornery Plan Task Wonderful World
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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Black History Fame Fiber Invisible Life Luck Men People Substance
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Change Commitment Committed Deep Grow Grows
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Control Enjoy Failure Happy Humanity Inspiring Life
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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Adult Certain Illegal Individual Minorities Permission Prohibited
We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Enough Morning Museum Sun
My hole is warm and full of light.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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