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“some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“Pragmatists are sometimes more prone to illusion than dreamers; when they fall for something, they fall hard, not knowing how to protect themselves, while we dreamers are more practiced in surviving the disillusionment that follows when we wake up from our dreams.”
― The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
― The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
“Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
― Citizen: An American Lyric
“How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?”
― 10:04
― 10:04
“Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark,” Baldwin said in an interview in 1961. “Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it’s true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.”
― The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
― The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
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