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“I think of quotes as mini-instruction manuals for the soul.”
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“It is best in the theater to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.”
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“Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.”
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“The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilo fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados — we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.”
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“He ran up the beach, but that was natural for he never walked. Even in Commencement processions he was always gaining on the man ahead of him.”
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“Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.”
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“He worshiped figures, and the laws of figures. They were the only constancy in the universe. Women might scream and fall silent in the snow. Houses might lift up wings of flame and fly into oblivion in a few mad hours. Men might starve and steal and starve again. But figures, untouched and inviolate, held their ineffable sanity.”
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“Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ...”