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"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked."
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"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked."
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"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."
"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."
"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
"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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