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- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
- People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by…
- Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
- I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
- No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
- When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
- To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
- Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
- The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
- The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
- Writing is a political instrument.
- Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.
- The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
- One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
- The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.
- Hatred destroys the person who hates.
- It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.
- You cannot fix what you will not face.
- Great art can only be created out of love.
- If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
- All racists are irresponsible.
- One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.
- A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
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