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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

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I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
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All literature is protest.
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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It 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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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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