Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
RICHARD WRIGHTIt hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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