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Time Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
- It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:…
- I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
- 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…
- The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
- 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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