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"I think, again, that that does the whole problem a, a disservice. It's not a case of our wanting to mix socially with whites. And when you - and the whites are right in the South when they say that getting a cup of coffee in a restaurant is not going to solve - is all right."
"Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does."
"In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd."
"Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself."
"...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required."
"One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath."
"What about your mind, does it shine?"
"I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why."
"'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel."
"What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something."
"The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did."
"When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms."
"If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?"
"When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head."
"All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does."
"I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes."
"There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer."
"Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window."
"Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true."
"I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does."
