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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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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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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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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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