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- 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…
- 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.
- Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider…
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
- Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes…
- She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life…
- I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.…
- Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.
- If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God…
- You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have…
- A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
- All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the…
- In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of…
- There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
- All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,…
- These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low…
- Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can…
- For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
- 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…
- Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not…
- He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.…
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