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- What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people…
- The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
- It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
- We can make America what America must become.
- If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.
- I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?
- Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids…
- Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must…
- Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers…
- If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God…
- If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay,…
- It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of…
- The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious…
- The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.
- I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument,…
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