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"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
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"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."

"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."

"All evil is good become cancerous."

"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."
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"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."

"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."

"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."

"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."

"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance."

"We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil."

"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."

"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."
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