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"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."
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"I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill."
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"Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor."
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"Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone."
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"We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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"Moving my body ignites my bliss. I say yes to movement!"
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"Don't calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don't stop to do calculation, just keep on moving."
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"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."
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"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable."
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"Wake up, Shake up, Make up and Break up; life is all about moving like ant in search of sugar not sand."
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"Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life."
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"Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?"
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"In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life."
Life
"In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other."
Cruelty
"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
Cultural
"As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere."
Thought
"As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day."
People
"The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role."
Creativity
"Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals."
Change
"That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world."
People
"The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint."
Life
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