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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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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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I blundered into writing.
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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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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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That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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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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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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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 truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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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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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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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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