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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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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 was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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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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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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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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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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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 am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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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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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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