192 quotes found
“I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.”
“If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.”
“Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”
“You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too early. We cannot be free until they are free.”
“When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time I began to wish I had. It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and f...”
“I do a lot of rewriting. Its very painful.”
“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.”
“We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.”
“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.”
“But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.”
“We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.”
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
“All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique. All artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up.”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.”
“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.”
“Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.”
“Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.”
“Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.”
“This world is white no longer and it will never be white again.”
“It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.”
