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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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