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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

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The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

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You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 2nd, 1924

Died: December 1st, 1987

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