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- The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human…
- I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his…
- I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And…
- We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity…
- By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but…
- All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is…
- All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
- The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human…
- Education is all a matter of building bridges.
- There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here…
- It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to…
- I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is…
- I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
- So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action,…
- Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why,…
- All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide