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Quote by Ralph Ellison
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. – Ralph Ellison

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I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Ralph Ellison

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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. – Ralph Ellison

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A degree of lying – you know, white lies – seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication. – Matthew Lesko

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People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and theres a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day. – Lee Grant

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I slept for four years. I didnt study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. – Don DeLillo

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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet. – Omar Bongo

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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. – Anatole France

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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. – Akhenaton

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