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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being...
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no...
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can...
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced...
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all,...
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said...
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the...
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of...
He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun...
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for...
Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
Source: A Question...
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will...
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is...
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself...
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a...
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is...
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant...
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free...
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other...