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Ralph Ellison

"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."

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"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."

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Ralph Ellison
"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
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Ralph Ellison
"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."
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Ralph Ellison
"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
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Ralph Ellison
"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."
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Ralph Ellison
"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
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Ralph Ellison
"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked."
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Ralph Ellison
"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy."
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Ralph Ellison
"By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication."
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Ralph Ellison
"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
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Ralph Ellison
"Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values."

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Aberjhani

"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

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Aberjhani

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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Aberjhani

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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Aberjhani

"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."

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Aberjhani

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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Aberjhani

"Things past redress are now with me past care."

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Aberjhani

"Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for."

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Aberjhani

"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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