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Tried Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
- 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…
- I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I…
- And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.
- I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's…
- 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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