Ishmael Reed Quotes
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.
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I can't be anybody but myself.
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If this is a tribute show to Eddie, then I definitely want to be a part of it, and I know that he would want me to be a part of it also.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
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Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.
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Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
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She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
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We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.
