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"In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something."
Understanding
"When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm."
People
"Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately."
Humanity
"Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written."
Process
"When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present."
Music
"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers."
Business
"As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that."
Democracy
"Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity."
Identity
"I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like."
Man
"You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism."
Family
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"Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written."
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Personal Development
"The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone."
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Personal Development
"He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things."
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Personal Development
"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
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Personal Development
"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
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Personal Development
"You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else."
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Personal Development
"As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light.As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun."
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Personal Development
"Rust through washing never became white."
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Personal Development
"But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes."
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Personal Development
"Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
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Personal Development
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