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“[T]he painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy, but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.”
“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.”
“It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.”
“Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't know, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had a long road back to the campus before me.”
“And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.”
“God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.”
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