#in

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#continuing #controlled #defeat #face #humanity

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#blindness #had #i #looked #looking

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#blind #destroy #free #imprison #make

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#back #constant #hovers #into #past

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#arrive #bright #case #condition #fairy

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it. ↗

— James Ellroy

#acclaim #built #chance #created #critical

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. ↗

— James Ellroy

#american #american history #brooding #crime #history

I believe in singing. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i #i believe #i believe in #singing

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist. ↗

— James Ellroy

#any #as far as #because #dead #deal

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case. ↗

— James Ellroy

#fact #hate #in fact #lose #lost