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Leaving what feels secure behind and following the beckoning of our hearts doesn't always end as we expect or hope. We may even fail. But here's the payoff: it can also be amazing and wonderful and immensely satisfying.
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I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.
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The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.
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A writer's work is the product of laziness.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.
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Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
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To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.
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There is no weather in malls.
