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"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
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"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."
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"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses."
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"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone."
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"Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."
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"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."
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"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black."
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"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."
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"It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story."
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"The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible."
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"The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."
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"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
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"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
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"The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now."
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"Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt."
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"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."
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"The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land."
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"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."
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"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."
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"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."
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"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."
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"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."
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"Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

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"Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden."
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"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."
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"The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."
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"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone... they will be forced to deal with pain."
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"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."

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"Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations."
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"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be."
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"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."
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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
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"He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die."
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