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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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"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."
"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."
"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."
"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."
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