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American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that we learn about ...

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Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing...

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The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connectio...

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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

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Uncertainty is the starting and ending point of Knowledge.

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Take two opposites, connect the dots, and you have a straight line.

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Aphorism: what is worth quoting from the soul's dialogue with itself.

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Impulses we attempt to strangle only develop stronger muscles.

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We stand to learn countless lessons every hour, if we did not forget from minute to minute.

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We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy.

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The biographer's art is that of confessing through the mask of another's personality.

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Awaking: waiting at the platform of existence for one's particular train of consciousness to arrive from far-away lands.

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Revelation: the discovery of a new application for an old truth.

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Spiritual Asthma: yearning tempered by shortage of breath.

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Truth can be like a large, bothersome fly - brush it away and it returns buzzing.

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The harshest critics are those denied access to the work; it is the same with life's critics.

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The discretion of metaphysics reveals itself in courtship.

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Solitude tests our weaknesses and intensifies our strengths, then pits them against one another.

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Wit: the pounce of a restless insight.

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Religion is faith harnessed.

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