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a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American lif...more

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Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and...more

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The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficult...more