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The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "...

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Joyce Carol OatesThe Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

Detective-story writers give this thrill by exploiting the resources of the possible; however improb...

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I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of m...

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In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all ...

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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - i...

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like ...

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As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of thei...

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At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain tro...

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Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with ...

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We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.

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Amiri BarakaTransbluesency: Selected Poems

There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, bu...

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…I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, unders...

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I will complain, yet praise;I will bewail, approve:And all my sowre-sweet dayesI will lament, and lo...

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George HerbertThe Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some sto...

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Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, ...

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