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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
"This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you."
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."
"You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal."
"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess."
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"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion."
"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."
"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."
"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."
"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
"In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color."
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