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James Baldwin quote: "The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience..."

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

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The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom. Condoleezza Rice
Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances. Richard Hughes
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. Jessamyn West
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