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Author: Ralph Ellison
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  1. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived.
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  2. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget.
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  3. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are. That must be it, I thought-to lose your direction is to lose your face.
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  4. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    Our fate is to become one, and yet many- This is not prophecy, but description.
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  5. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.
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  6. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself.
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  7. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    they could talk and agree with themselves, the world was nailed down, and they loved it. They received a feeling of security.
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  8. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    I've never been more loved and appreciated than when I tried to "justify" and affirm someone's mistaken beliefs; or when I've tried to give my friends the incorrect, absurd answers they wished to hear.
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  9. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth.
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  10. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    When one is invisible he finds such problems as good and evil, honesty and dishonesty, of such shifting shapes that he confuses one with the other, depending upon who happens to be looking through him at the time.
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  11. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    I'm an invisible man and it placed me in a hole-or showed me the hole I was in, if you will-and I reluctantly accepted the fact.
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  12. Ralph Ellison _ Invisible Man

    Why do you laugh?" he said. "Because at a price I now see that which I couldn't see," I said.
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