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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment…
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural…
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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…
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…
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America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the…
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series…
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Much is being missed because of fear. We are too attached to the body and we go on creating more and more…
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This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.
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Being bodiless, God is nowhere, but as God He is everywhere. If there were a mountain, a place or any part of…
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it…
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I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in…
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Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!†it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments…
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