"Thou hast turned my words to make them conform to thy desire, rather than to my will."
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We contain the other, hopelessly and forever.
--James Baldwin
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"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness..."
-E. M. Forster (Howards End)
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What Americans mean by history is anything they think they can forget.
-James Baldwin
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It is hard to hear a new voice, as hard as it is to listen to an unknown language.
-D. H. Lawrence
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you mean, the epitome of the vulgar mind?
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