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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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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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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 spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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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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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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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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