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It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

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It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 2nd, 1924

Died: December 1st, 1987

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