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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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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 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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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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I blundered into writing.
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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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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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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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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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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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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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