"The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

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"The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

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"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."

Experience, Thought, Beliefs, Deeds

"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

Beauty, People, Ugly

"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone."

Man, Men, Artist, Being, State

"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

Experience, Faces, Identity

"The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land."

History, Land

"It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story."

Music, America, Americans, Limits

"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."

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"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."

Age, World

"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."

Being,

"Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."

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"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

Education, Science, Fantasy, First, Open

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

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"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

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"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."

Jack London, American Novelist

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"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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