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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
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“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
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but a hammer with which to shape it.”
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“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
― The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition
― The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition
“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.”
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“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”
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