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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I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools.
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Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
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It's not reckless, because when we leap, when we dive in, when we begin, only begin, we bring our true nature to the project, we make it personal and urgent. And it's not abandon, not in the sense that we've abandoned our senses or our responsibility. In fact, abandoning the fear of fear that is holding us back is the single best way not to abandon the work, the pure execution of the work. Later, there's time to backpedal and water down. But right now, reckless please.
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I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.
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We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.
